EconDefense
INT-14 / Security cooperation, assistance and education

Train, equip and sustain foreign national security forces for enumerated missions

Build partner capacity with defense articles/services, training, supplies and small-scale construction for nine listed missions, including military intelligence and defensive cyber.

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At a glance

Possible toolINT-14 · Other statutory tools
Legal basis10 U.S.C. § 333

Authority holder: Secretary of Defense with Secretary of State concurrence; DSCA administers subject to lawful designations.

Other statutory tools

Mechanism tags describe the source text; they do not expand the authority.

Availability and verification

Existing statutory pathway; conditional on the listed findings, approvals, eligible purpose and actual available funds. Not an obligation-ready certification.

Requirements and limits

Eligibility & prerequisites

  • Joint Defense-State development/planning and coordinated implementation.
  • Required human-rights, law-of-armed-conflict, rule-of-law/civilian-control and institutional-capacity elements and certifications.
  • Unit eligibility/Leahy review; 15-day notice, absorption and sustainment assessments.

Limits & exclusions

  • Limited statutory mission menu; not unrestricted economic aid.
  • Other legal prohibitions remain; extended sustainment beyond five years needs added justification/transition information.
  • Construction above statutory reporting threshold needs project details and masterplan.

Funding conditions

  • Sole source: O&M, Defense-wide amounts available to DSCA for these programs.
  • As amended, amounts available in FY2025 or later may support programs beginning that year through end of third fiscal year thereafter; check actual appropriation availability.

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Who contributes what

Need & planning

  • Geographic or functional CCMD security-cooperation planners
    Office profile
  • Embassy SCO and Chief of Mission country team

Resources

Approval

  • Secretary of Defense or documented authorized delegate
    Office profile
  • Secretary of State where required

Execution

Partners & review

  • Foreign partner government
  • Department of State
  • Export-control/foreign-disclosure officials

Office links are editorial matches to the original role text, not verified delegations. Composite labels and unmatched actors are preserved.

Coordination pathway

CCMD/SCO requirements → joint State planning → DSCA implementing agency design/cost/sustainment → concurrence/certification/notice → funded case execution.

Actor and execution-role sources

Legal basis

What this research establishes

Legal powerSource and conditions recorded
EligibilityProject-specific check needed
Available fundsBalances not verified
DelegationValid signature authority must be checked
ExecutionOffice capacity and approvals must be checked

Confidence: High on express statutory capability; execution/delegation and currently available resources require program-specific confirmation.

Currentness: GovInfo 2024 U.S. Code baseline read; relevant FY2026 NDAA (Pub. L. 119-60, enacted 2025-12-18) amendments reviewed. Target 2026-10-02; source-specific OLRC checks and remaining delta are documented in international.md. No certification of current funds or executed delegations. §333(g)(2) FY26 amendment changes amounts MADE available to amounts AVAILABLE; direct enacted text checked.

Research target: October 2, 2026. A record-specific last-review date is not supplied. Publication date is not legal-currentness certification.

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